That just means they have all the infrastructure they need to bottle syrup from another source and start selling that instead - no capex needed, just maybe need to get together with other franchisees and figure out how to spend some opex on marketing and getting it onto store shelves. Coca-cola has a moat, but it's hardly protective of franchisees here.

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blell 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There must be thousands of soda manufacturers in Europe. I can buy dozens of sodas where I live. But they are not Coca Cola.

	▲	anilgulecha 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From a recent hn discussion there's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
	▲	immibis 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They are bottled at the same places that bottle Coca-Cola. If those places stop paying for their Coca-Cola brand license because nobody is buying it... then okay? so what? Or, now that someone's reverse-engineered the Coca-Cola formula and everyone's saying we need to stop pandering to USA IP rights, governments have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. I think Russia already did.

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wpm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Someone just used gas chromatography to develop a seemingly passable knock off of the unpatented Coca Cola formula and posted it online. https://youtu.be/TDkH3EbWTYc

	▲	amarcheschi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I firmly believe that such thing is already know by companies... In the niche perfumes hobby, you have small brands doing that or people paying for gcms analysis on perfumes, i guess that companies have already done that on coke for decades